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Growing ears

BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Johns Hopkins doctors are once again making history–this time by using a woman’s own tissue to build her a new ear.

Derek Valcourt explains with doctors’ help, her own body has replaced what an aggressive form of cancer took away.

You don’t have to tell Sherrie Walters her story sounds like science fiction.

“No, I feel like an experiment,” Walters said.

The discovery of a rapidly-spreading basal cell cancer in her ear in 2008 required the removal of part of her ear, part of her skull and her left ear canal. But now, in a groundbreaking and complicated set of surgeries, Johns Hopkins doctors have attached a new ear made from Walters’ own tissue.

The slideshow at the bottom is really awesome but rather graphic.

If, if a white man puts his arm around me voluntarily, that's brotherhood. But if you - if you hold a gun on him and make him embrace me and pretend to be friendly or brotherly toward me, then that's not brotherhood, that's hypocrisy.- Malcolm X

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I was reading about a rodent which they've discovered can shed and regrow its ears (cartilage included, which was taken from the patients' ribs in this operation as we can't pull that off as yet) and even large patches of skin. It is the first mammal observed to have such regeneration abilities, which is huge for science.

Studying a regenerating lizard might be interesting, but it will almost certainly never lead to much medicinal value to a mammalian species. We just don't function the same way.

It could be that as impressive an operation as this is, in 50 odd years people might just get their less serious injuries completely regrown instead of partially built.

The reason that science and religion are not compatible are because science keeps debunking the need for superstition.

“It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.”
― Giordano Bruno

The reason that science and religion are not compatible are because science keeps debunking the need for superstition.

Superstition is viagra for the gullible. It gives you a hard on for a sky daddy.

"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."ObamaCheck out my poetry here on Rational Responders Like my poetry thread on Facebook under BrianJames Rational Poet also on twitter under Brianrrs37

Superstition is viagra for the gullible. It gives you a hard on for a sky daddy.

I like that. Could be a good title for a series of books like Chicken Soup for the Soul.

Only these will be called : Viagra for the gullible.

“It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.”
― Giordano Bruno